The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-31
HOBBIES OF NOTED MEN.
The Advantages of Hobbies and the Odd
Varieties by Which Men Are. Tempted.

The Advantages of Hobbies and the Odd
Varieties by Which Men Are Tempted.
cincinnati Enquirer.l
Hobbies reveal a persons character
more than any thing else. 1t shows
the possessor in more lovabie ana
amiable light. He must have both
heart and Imagination to ride hobby.
Show me person who has no lnd1vld-
ual hkings and tastes to which ne is
passionately attached, and you will find
a man cold, hard hearted, calculating.
Great mems hobbies have been many,
and so eccentric as to lead the common
horde to think their possessors were in
sane. Wendell Phillips hobby was the
negro and his freedom. John G. Cal
houn's was South Carolina and multi
fication. Webster's, Stewards and
Chase's were the presidency, yet they
never reached their goal; Elihu Bur
ritt's, the learning of languages; Dio
Lewis, exercise and physical develop
ment; Trask's, the condemnation Of to-
bacco, and John B. Coughs, the recla-
nation of drunkards.
Hobbies are profitable, in that man
with one idea becomes a specialist,
connoisseur in his line, an authority.
John Allen, an old citizen of New York,
He was a veritable antiquarian, and
saw wealth in odd trinkets and SOU
venirs, to which the worldly minded
person would attach no value, and say,
s'What is all this good for?" His port
folios were crammed with rare auto
graphs and superb prints, and his cab
inets of coins, watches, shoe buckles,
armor, antique costumes, china and
plate had not its equal in America. At
his death the sale realized enormously,
so that the work of his lifetime was
not entirely in vain.
Walpole was one of the most famous
of collectors in his day. His house was
a veritable curiosity-s shop of antiquities.
This was his hobby, as well an old
woman's love of gossip, which he has
handed down to us in his admirable
memoirs. Signor La Blache, the great
buffo and basso, had a hobby for snuff
boxes and walking sticks, and it was i'm
possible to possess too great variety.
Snuff boxes Of every description,
gold and snuff boxes set with
emeralds and rubies were all
eagerly sought for, and carefully
cherished when acquired. AS for walk
ing sticks, he had them for every day
in the year.
elliott, the celebrated steel pen man
ufacturer, had hobby for Cremona fd-
dies. He possessed more than sufficient
to stock the OrchestraS of the two
great opera houses of London, yet he
could not play a note himself The
duke Of Sussex, brother of George II,
had great collection of cigars and
Bibles. Count Henry Won Bruhl, the
German diplomatic, was said by Fred
erick the Great, ito have, of all men of
his time, the most watches, lace boots,
shoes and slippers" OF all his curiosi-
ties none could exceed his collection of
wigs
Frederick the Greats hobby was for
giants for his Potsdam regiment Louis
AVI. had mania for 10 ks and keys
and clocks. The late king of Bavaria
had a strange mania tor hats. Bull
wer DIR Riccabocca" will stand for
the pipe lobbyist and Dickens 'Fagin
was the greatest collector of handker-
chiefs Wilkie Collins has detective
whose hobby was the culture of roses.
Miss Farebrother," in George Eliot's
'Middlemarch," has hobby for drop
ping Jumps of sugar into little basket
that she may have them to give to her
friends, the boys of the street. There
was once an old nurse who had been in
the employ of one OF the court ladies of
William ", whose hobby was to col
lect pieces of wedding cake of all the
princesses of the royal family, including
Queen Victoria and some of her dau-
ghters.